Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 29
The cover rose more and more; and the Elder-flowers came forth so fresh and white, and shot up long branches.
Who acts: cover, Elder flowers · What happens: rise, come, shoot up · To what, where: long branches
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cover, Elder flowers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cover | det |
| 2 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 rose | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 more | cc |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 more | conj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 flowers | det |
| 10 | Elder | Elder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 flowers | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Elder | punct |
| 12 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rose | conj |
| 14 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 13 came | advmod |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 fresh | advmod |
| 16 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 came | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 white | cc |
| 18 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fresh | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 shot | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 shot | cc |
| 21 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 came | advcl |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 shot | compound:prt |
| 23 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 branches | amod |
| 24 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 shot | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the cover | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come | past | the Elder flowers | forth, fresh property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shoot up | past | the Elder flowers not said here | long branches | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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